Looks like Donzo took a chainsaw to his MAGA promises instead

Yes, MASA..

Make Argentina Solvent Again!

Argentina gets $20 billion in US aid

Buenos Aires, Argentina - President Javier Milei returned to Argentina from his New York City trip with far more than new photos. After meeting with President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the libertarian secured a massive aid package from the United States that helped dispel worries about a future default on Argentina's debt.

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We have certain things in common Jeffrey..


Edited: 09/30/2025 at 12:57 AM by fishkller

The Maga and America First folks should be fking pissed over this.

On top of that, this bailout benefits Treasury Secretary Bessent and his friends personally.

Yeah, more grifting....
That is the hallmark of Trump's administration.


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https://finance.yahoo.com/news...ent-old-182939163.html

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's $20 billion Argentinian bailout is not only poised to prop up President Javier Milei's anarcho-capitalist regime with U.S. taxpayer dollars; it's also set to deliver a significant windfall to one of Bessent's old friends, per a Monday report by Judd Legum at Popular Information.

Robert Citrone, a billionaire who founded the hedge fund Discovery Capital Management, has a decadeslong relationship with Bessent that's gone unreported in the U.S. press.

Legum cites descriptions in Latin American business publications of Bessent and Citrone's friendship, including one paper that notes their "personal relationship as well as a past working relationship." He also reports that when they were co-workers at Soros Fund Management, Citrone, by his own account, gave Bessent highly profitable investment advice.

Since Milei's ascendance, Citrone has bet big on the Argentine economy. But amid the recent economic downturn under Milei, his Argentine investments were in trouble.

Enter Bessent. Last week, the treasury secretary announced a $20 billion currency swap line that, Citrone told Bloomberg, "has helped tremendously" and "will pay dividends for the U.S. strategically." It's certainly boosted Citrone's holdings. (Notably too, Legum writes, "In early September, days before Bessent's announcement, Citrone purchased more Argentine bonds.")

This wasn't the first time the U.S. treasury secretary has seemingly pleased Citrone by acting on Argentina's behalf.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV


Edited: 09/30/2025 at 04:48 AM by Bamboo

Imagine, if you will, an election in some corner of the world where a socialist is elected and undertakes a radical re-organization of the economy.
Two years later, that imaginary socialist needs $20 billion to prop up his democratic economy due to capital flight and lack of confidence by international capital.

What would the right and center right press say about that in the USA and around the world? Would they praise his creativity and readily volunteer American taxpayer funds toward the project?


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"Are you a Communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist."
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism."

-Protagonist Robert Jordan, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Hemmingway)

Rusty, they would freak the fuck out. That's what they would do.

As for the $20 billion? It will be a loss. Their president's plan is systemically broken. We just put expensive air in the tires of a car with a blown engine.

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I was right.

^Nitrogen. Costs more, does nothing, but you get those groovy green valve stem caps that tell the world how much you care for your car with the blown engine.

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"In early September, days before Bessent's announcement, Citrone purchased more Argentine bonds."

In your face insider trading.

It's the immigrants and gays ruining civilization though.

A photo snapped by the AP's Angelina Katsanis during last Tuesday's United Nations General Assembly shows Bessent peering down at his phone to read a message from someone whose initials match those of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. And she wasn't happy.

"We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us," Rollins wrote.

Along with Rollins' message was a link to grain trader Ben Scholl's criticism of Bessent for pledging that "we stand ready to do what is needed to support Argentinan and the Argentine people."

"China is up to 20 cargoes of Argentine soybeans while we are busy bailing out Argentina," Scholl wrote. "They think you are stupid."



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"Are you a Communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist."
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism."

-Protagonist Robert Jordan, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Hemmingway)

LOL only Donzo would pay $20 BILLION to a failed 3rd world country so they could fuck over America's farmers.

Those maga votes sure are paying off.

Well. paying off to Argentina at least

hahahaha

STEAKS'D AGAIN!



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We have certain things in common Jeffrey..


Edited: 09/30/2025 at 09:04 AM by fishkller

Trump and his Argentine hill of beans.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Argentina first.

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I was right.

Make Argentina Great Again


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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

And then....right on Q......er: cue
Soy bean bailouts.....genius!
and exactly whooo do ya think pays for all this tail chasing
by puties pet orange poodle?

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It's a democratic hoax

$20 to billion to Argentina. $20 billion to American farmers.

$40 billion for what?



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I was right.

I'll gladly pay you $100 billion on Tuesday for the $100 billion I fucked up on Monday

because I wasted $100 billion last Saturday

because I spent $100 billion on a 3rd world country last Thursday

Instead of spending the $100 billion that I stole from Americans last Wednesday on... America.



Did I mention I spent all YOUR new tax money on a different country?


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Edited: 10/03/2025 at 11:38 AM by fishkller

Did Trump say $20 billion?
He meant $40 billion.
Lots of others will benefit from this also, including some Friends of Trump and Bessent.
Go figure...

"beneficiary of the Trump admin's Argentina bailout package: major hedge funds led by Bessent's friends. Several major investment funds, including BlackRock, Fidelity, and Pimco, stand to significantly gain from the aid transfer, as do several independent investors with ties to Bessent, The New York Times reported earlier this month."

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Trump and his lackeys are getting rich on the American tax dollar. All while we pay more for everything.

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I was right.

Fuck Argentina.

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Billionaires are ripping us off, destroying our quality of life, and ending democracy.

And MAGA had fking kittens about USAID having a $30 billion dollar budget., and they helped millions around the world and boosted the cred and goodwill of the USA.

But giving Argentina billions because Trump likes him is just fine...even though they are stabbing us in the back by selling soybeans to china...because our orange stable genius created a wholly unnecessary trade war.

That is where we are today.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV